My wife has twice tried to get into the restaurant for dinner and it looks like we’re going to have to wait even longer as Chef Masato Nishihara’s food was both insanely delicious, beautifully prepared and, there’s no denying, that’s a very nice press clipping.

A very grateful thank you goes out to Photo Editor Luise Stauss (whom I met through Natasha Lunn)… in my book they drink free!

All of which is to say: Dear Reader (that would be my wife, sometimes my sister, and maybe a few people with desk jobs that have Google Reader tattoos, and God willing a few Photo Editors), I apologize. But here is a little sunshine in the form of a recent picture I took of Alexis Rothenberg. She runs Worthwhisland. You, my friend, can actually buy a Ross Bleckner. It’s not everyday someone says that to you. Right?

You can read an interview on LOVING and learn about her secret blog.
She is an excellent photographer: Listen to her speak and see some of her work for Oxfam. Thank you Helena!

Marcia Resnick‘s “Roy Cohn and Steve Rubell” … just cause.

p.s. This reminds me that I once took photos in the West Village apartment of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Time to dig through the negatives!

–T.S. Elliot in “Hamlet and His Problems” from The Sacred Wood; Essays on Poetry and Criticism.

I read this in a Louis Menand article from the Sept. 19 2011 issue of The New Yorker. We are widening our scope of reading material around here as the Mrs. just subscribed to the Wall Street Journal. These facts should immediately evoke the emotion of being overwhelmed as there is plenty of reading material delivered via mail in addition to the Absalom, Absalom and a bio of Alexander Hamilton just taking up space but the photography in the WSJ looked good in the weekend’s issue. England’s Guardian is arriving to NYC shortly so there may be some photographer movement in the works. Keep me posted if you hear anything.

Sunset was a dozy after the storm broke. Unlike those intrepid CNN reporters who are either trying to up their pay grade, or have death wishes, these photos are as close as I got to photographing the hurricane.

Nice clouds, eh?

Here is Kate featured as a Lady of Castor & Pollux with a photo I took in her studio.

Dear Career Gods,
Sign me up for that split.
Love,
John

I missed MOMA’s “The Original Copy Show” but an Art Blart post contains a large selection of images from the show, which examines how photographers examine sculpture in their work.  MOMA’s exhibition site for the show is also, in the words/sculpture/photograph of Bruce Nauman, HOT.

Note: I spent some time as a book buyer and would be remiss if I didn’t mention that the hard cover looks valuable and the paperback is pretty cheap.

Treacherous Three as you can see / Special K / Sunshine / And Kool Moe Dee / And don’t forget MC Spoonie Gee: